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Hi. I have a 42 TB media server and it's down to like 1 TB free. I have a BD burner and some blanks, figured I'd archive off a bunch of stuff I don't care much about and don't need online. Is there any software out there that I can point at a folder and say "create collections of as close to...

Ah yea, I forgot AT power supplies, d'oh. I'll grab one of them, thanks.

Hi. I have an LTO2 tape drive in an external SCSI enclosure. The enclosure PSU died and I cannot find a replacement. I was thinking if I just had a PSU that didn't require a mobo to turn it on, I'd be fine. Does anyone know of one that would work to turn itself on just via a rocker on the...

Sounds good. I noticed that Seagate's NAS drives are only $10 more than regular, so I may as well just buy those. I'll max out my board (32 GB) and if worst comes to worst, I can just fall back to my original Windows server setup. Well, I'm over building so I won't have to worry about this...

Hi. I seem to recall reading somewhere that you can get away with using non-NAS certified drives with a software RAID like FreeNAS; that you won't have the drop out problems. Is that accurate? My current setup is: Chenbro RM-4140U case (16 hot swap bays, SATA backplane) 16 WD10EACS 1 TB...

Thanks for the input. Hmm good point about the controller, I have no idea. I bought it back in 2007, that may be an issue. Have to do some reading hehe. Thanks again :)

Hi. I currently have a server with 16 Western Digital 1TB green drives (WD10EACS) in RAID6 on an Areca ARC-1160ML2. I've been continually deleting things from the array over the last few months due to space issues, so I really need to blow this thing away and upgrade. I was thinking of...

Yea, that's why I stopped even trying. I figured nothing I can say would help. I could probably get a letter from Cisco's CTO stating their routers have web server capability and it would be explained away heh. Being no expert myself though I figured I'd get an objective opinion on whether...

Whoops, I originally thought I was posting in Networking forum. Sorry.

The idea wasn't whether or not it's a good idea, rather whether or not it's valid to state that the router has what can be described as "web server" functionality in that it technically is a web server (it serves web content). My Netgear router, if you telnet to it on 80 and do a GET / HTTP/1.1...

I was reading a discussion on another forum and someone said they once ran a web server off of a router, to which another person replied: "And no, you did not run a web server on an old router. I don't even know where to begin with this one. Routers have so little RAM the web server would not...

Thanks guys. I had considered having hot spares, but I figured having them run 24x7 would put them in the same danger for breakdown as the other drives. Well, I guess not quite the same, since I assume they aren't being accessed constantly like the main ones.

Howdy. I'm planning a revamp of my array box (currently Areca 1680ml2 with 16 WD10EACS in R6). I'd like to build a second box using a 24 bay machine, but I doubt I'll have funds for that so I plan to just yank the 16 1 TB drives and replace with 3 TB drives. My question is, the motivation...

+1. ~$160ish for 3 TB sounds really tempting. I have WD10EACS right now, and I was able to use the WD tool to enable TLER on them but I'm hearing it won't work on the WD30EZRX. Does anyone know for sure? 16 of these drives RAID'd would make for a long time I could go without worrying about...

lol :) I need to switch to LTO4 so I can make it a less painful process.

Thanks. Yea, you're right.. I wouldn't be "hosed", but it will SUCK, timewise, to restore from 51 LTO2 tapes haha.

Hi. My server's PSU died recently. During the downtime I tried to take two workstation PSUs and get the box back up, but after running for a minute 4 drives fell off the array so I shut it down and waited for the real one to come in the mail. Got here today and just installed it. However...

A colleague asked me, I've no clue. ??

I like WarFTP. I don't see how it's bloatware, it is taking up 4mb on my system. On the other hand, I haven't tried the other suggestions so I may just not know what I'm missing heh. I'll have to try some of them out.

I am running Backup Exec 11d. I want to be able to read my catalog files (.fh). I saw catdump util from Symantec, downloaded and tried but it keeps crashing. I recall reading somewhere that it doesn't work with v11. Anyone know of a utility that works? Thanks!

Ditto. I buy used tapes off eBay all the time. First thing I do is a long erase on them, and always use verify when I do backups. Makes the backup take forever, but I just queue it up and start when I go to bed, then in the morning it's all good to go. So far I've gone through 10 LTO2...

Removing the battery btw only marginally increased speeds. With the battery backup off, random write speed went up to 17.3MB/s and seq write went to 102.1MB/s. These figures are all with cache disabled too. It seems to operate fine as far as useability though. Copying files to / from the...

Ditto. I'd RMA it. Hell, I'd RMA it even if I had to pay the fee, just to have peace of mind. When I considered returning the WDs for Seagates I told them right up front there was nothing wrong with them, just changed my mind and they still would let me return. So it doesn't matter if it...

No, actually I didn't. I have to actually retest my performance now that I've blown away the array and rebuilt it with the 16 drive R6. My first tests were 4 drive R5. I can't see how it would've changed though, if anything maybe gotten worse. I'll do the tests again and report back. Even...

Yea, just run the "evil" Server 2003 and in the interim, learn linux.

I have a Quantum LTO2 Ultrium drive I use for backups. It works great, but the one thing that drives me NUTS is when I'm selecting stuff to backup when I'm creating a backup job it doesn't tell me a tally of how many bytes I've selected. I really wish it could do a little bar graph kind of...

Cool. Yea, I think I'm just going to rip from a workstation. I can't justify $80 for a slim DVD reader for the server, I can't imagine the time savings (if any) will warrant the price.

Nice. I used to have a Proliant with 8 Xeons, it made me laugh first time I opened the Task Manager performance tab and saw the CPU graphs :)

I don't think he was trying to "front", he was being helpful posting links from my other thread since someone had asked for other view of my rack and I was latent getting back to this thread :) I hear alot of good things about Solaris, I need to setup it up on a VM and learn. I'm a linux...

I have a file server I'm going to be using to store my 600 disc DVD collection on. Looking down the ardurous path I'm on of DVD ripping, I'm trying to figure the fastest most efficient method. The server has a slot for a slim notebook style optical drive. No available 5.25" bay. So, which...

I've been running 4 WD10EACS drives in R5 for a month or so, haven't had any issues yet. I just found out about the tler bug and fix on this forum and applied it just to be safe. I figure since I'm doing a 16 drive RAID eventually the cost savings ($330 RE2 - $270 GP x 16 = $960) is worth...

lol oops, sorry hehe. I guess 10am is too early for me to be up posting, I'm not quite awake :D

No prob, glad I could contibute somehow hehe :)

I hear ya. I used to like to buy a bleeding edge gaming box every couple years, but as of late I haven't felt the need. I just blew $10k setting up servers instead, heh. I find that the games I still play every now and again run just fine on my Dell's integrated Radeon X1300 so I've felt no...

I bought a Chenbro RM-4140 case and rails. Got them from the same place at the same time, so I'd think the rails are proper for the case. Got them all mounted up and in the cabinet, then when I went to rack stuff above it found a problem.. the case sits slightly out of the proper U space...

Thanks. Our LAN parties don't tend to the large normally, usually like 5-12 people but we try to once a year rent space and hold larger ones that have around 30 people. The switch is still overkill I guess, but 80 10/100 ports for $50 was a sweet ass $/port that I couldn't pass up :) Plus it...

I'm bored, what the hey. I have all my stuff in a Dell 4210 42U rack cabinet. I have the rack configured as follows: 2U: 24 port patch panel 1U: Linksys SR2024 24 port gigabit switch 4U: HP Procurve 4000m 80 port fast ethernet switch 9U: GVision 17" touch screen LCD 2U: Filler with my...

PS, interesting to note that it apparently worked on the WD1600JS as well. Actually, I wonder if maybe I should reboot one more time and toggle it back off for that drive, since it's the OS drive and not RAID. Dunno if having it on for that will be an issue or not.